The hollow tree

This was a small assignment where the teacher gave us the first paragraph. Anyway it's just about a boy who falls into a little predicament with ZOMBIES.

Submitted:Feb 25, 2013
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There was a man who was lost in the forest. Night fell and he
didn't know what to do, but just before the light went out
completely he found a hollow tree. Climbing into the tree he
settled down and decided to spend the night there. Climbing into
the tree he settled down and decided to spend the night there.
After a while, he thought he heard a voice. He was about to call
out when he heard another voice, and for some reason he remained
silent. There was something strange about the voice, and for some
reason he remained silent. There was something strange about the
voices, something which made him want to stay silent.

Now don't get me wrong Alex was a bright guy (ranked
top in his college math class) but this was almost an out-of-body
experience. Alex listened closer trying to decipher what the
lyrical voice was trying to tell him. Alex didn't know how but
somehow he knew that what this voice had to say was important.
But no matter how hard he tried it sounded like a different
language! Until…

"Think… Life… Cliff… Crazy… You…"

Alex didn't give it a second thought before falling asleep. In
the morning he pushed himself out of the tree, he will admit it
was a tight fit. Suddenly Alex remembered the happenings of last
night. Alex started going over the words again and again but
could find any way that they could have been connected. He kept
walking and walking (aimlessly he realized about halfway through)
and suddenly Alex came to a cliff as he started to hear the
strange voice again. Alex passed it off as dehydration and sat on
the edge of the cliff looking down at the ravine below. Hmm… Alex
pulled something out of his pocket, his cellphone. Alex shrugged
and dropped the Nokia down. He waited and waited but never heard
an audible thump. Alex started to stand but a dull pressure was
on his back. It got harder and harder. Finally Alex tripped.

He fell forward over the edge of the cliff. The
ground rushed towards him quite fast as though the world was
moving around him. The ground grew closer and closer still until
finally… He didn't die.

Alex kept on falling into a pure white world where he
finally slowly stopped falling. Alex whipped his head up to look
around but there was nothing to see. Just a vast sea of endless
white. Alex heard the voice again.

"Cliff… Yes… Closer… Come."

Alex was entranced by the voice that seemed to be
that of woman's. Rather young too. He walked in the direction he
thought it was coming in and slowly made his way to nothing. His
beat up blue sneakers padded along the ground until suddenly he
stopped. Alex felt as if he was pressing his body up against
glass. He tried to focus his eyes onto one section of white but
it was like trying to pick out the particles of water. A figure
appeared and Alex had to rub his eyes just to make sure he wasn't
seeing things. The figure had a very slow gait… Almost too slow
to be human, but still Alex waited for it to come closer.

At last Alex could make out the first few details of
the Ghostly person. They had white papery thin and long, very
dirty, brown hair that cascaded past their knees. He couldn't
focus in on much more except for the fact that they were wearing
something that had quite a bit of red on it. A stale coppery
smell pierced his nose and Alex took a step back. Blood.

This person had blood on their clothes! What a
ghastly sight! The figure grew closer and closer yet. Soon Alex
could tell it definitely wasn't human. They 'thing' had ripped
and mangled features, the high cheekbones were actually showing,
and their eyes were a light green but filmy… Eyes of the
dead? No, it couldn't be! Zombies only existed in movies
right? Were Alex thoughts but nothing could stop the monster
and soon enough a high pitched hum was emitted from it. It wasn't
a pretty sound like you'd imagine humming to be. The simple
shrill voice gave Alex Goosebumps and chills.

Alex backed up more but the creature gained on him.
Alex turned and ran but soon faced millions of them. There was
nothing he could do, no magic spell to get out of this, no words
he could utter, no potion he could drink. This was the end of
honors student Alex. All he had to call his own at the moment was
his industrial strength Nokia… Wait! The Nokia! Alex felt rather
silly that he didn't look for his phone before. Alex dashed past
the walking cadaver and towards a familiar black speck. He picked
it up and dialed speed dial thirteen well still running.

"Hello?" His best friend Josh said answering. "Oh
wait one second I'm getting another call." Alex sighed as Josh
merged calls so the three friends Alex, Yuki, and Josh were all
talking. "Hey Josh!" Yuki said in a bright and cheery voice.
"Josh why are you awake at three A.M? Were you sleep walking
again? You too Yuki why are you up?" Alex's eyes widened as Yuki
jumped into a long discussion with Josh about why he was
up.

Is this a dream? Alex thought to himself.
Well, I'm dead anyway. Josh thought as he turned around
slowly walking back to the undead. The short brunette walked into
the crowd and suddenly bolted upright.

In bed, with his Nokia in his hands. Well, that was
an exciting dream. Alex heard something else then. A small voice.

"It… Is… Not… Over… Yet… Alex."

Alex immediately pulled the covers of his small dorm
room bed over his head ignoring the voice. It didn't matter
anymore anyway. At least he sure did hope it didn't matter…
Unless the world was being taken over by humming, talking, female
cadavers… No.